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biocementation

noun

Etymology

From bio- + cementation.

  1. inherited from syment
  2. suffixed as cementation — “cement + ation”
  3. prefixed as biocementation — “bio + cementation”

Definitions

  1. cementation by the deposition of calcium carbonate by microbes

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for biocementation. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA